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Jeroen De Dauw
Jeroen De Dauw

Reputation: 10918

Showing commands in git alias using xargs

I have the following "push all" alias in my .gitconfig:

[alias]
    pall = !git remote | xargs -L1 -I R git push R

This allows me to push to master on all remotes with

git pall master

With 3 remotes this gives me an output that looks like 

Everything up-to-date
Everything up-to-date
Everything up-to-date

I'm looking for a way to have the command show what is actually being executed. Something like

git push remote1 master
    Everything up-to-date
git push remote2 master
    Everything up-to-date
git push remote3 master
    Everything up-to-date

I'm not sure how to access the branch argument though. Not as simple as $1. How can I modify my alias so executing it results in an output that explains what is going on as shown above?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 220

Answers (1)

customcommander
customcommander

Reputation: 18951

I think you probably need to run xargs with -t:

Echo the command to be executed to standard error immediately before it is executed.

$ seq 10 | xargs -t -I x echo "n=x"
echo n=1
n=1
echo n=2
n=2
echo n=3
n=3
echo n=4
n=4
echo n=5
n=5
echo n=6
n=6
echo n=7
n=7
echo n=8
n=8
echo n=9
n=9
echo n=10
n=10

Upvotes: 2

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